Electric bodies

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Artists

PAWA 2018

PAWA 2018 took audiences on a journey into the realm of performance art, challenging perceptions and immersing attendees in a world where the boundaries between artist, audience, and environment dissolved.

Sara Cowdell

Creative Director/Curator/Producer

Milan De Maule

Designer

2018

Thistle Hall Breakfasts and Exhibi...

DISCUSSION: ARTIST RELAY

IMPERVIOUS INTIMACY

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

SATURDAY NIGHT 2018

WORKSHOP: PERFORMANCE POSTCARD

INTERLOPER

STORY AND DESTROY

DISCUSSION: THE INTERNATIONAL PUBL...

OPENING NIGHT 2018

THE LONG CONVERSATION/ KINETIC ORA...

CLOSING NIGHT 2018

X

JELLYFISH DO RETURN

FRIDAY NIGHT 2018

HEARD SCENE

A LADY DROWNS

From the Foothills of the Himalayas

WORKSHOP: PERFORMANCE POSTCARD

INTERLOPER

DISCUSSION: THE INTERNATIONAL PU...

HEARD SCENE

OPENING NIGHT 2018

JELLYFISH DO RETURN

A LADY DROWNS

DISCUSSION: ARTIST RELAY

STORY AND DESTROY

Thistle Hall Breakfasts and Exhi...

THE LONG CONVERSATION/ KINETIC O...

CLOSING NIGHT 2018

SATURDAY NIGHT 2018

IMPERVIOUS INTIMACY

X

FRIDAY NIGHT 2018

2018

Artists

She draws from sticky experiences and moments to burrow into multi-layered pieces or single image explorations

Victoria Abbott

The body in movement and sensorial active listening (epicentre of performance action)

Hélène Lefebvre

currently interested in the relationship between physical matter and invisible energies like electricity, radio waves and emotions

Adam Ben-Dror

When you're amongst the biodiversity of forests & beaches, you're part of an ecological system based in fluidity and adaptability ~ that's whakapapa.

Louie Zalk-Neale

solo performance art projects, which are are often political and relational (immersive) to commissioned group choreographies

Alexa Wilson

expanding the conception of experimental sound-based performance practises

INOPPORTUNE

She complains ironically about resisting neat categorisation of her art obstructing programming of her work

Virginia Kennard

communal experiences whereby spectators are welcomed as participants in a compositional process

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh

Negative effects of mass media, consumerism, and people’s neglectful tendency towards the environment proved to be my artistic stimulants

RV Sanchez

values embodiment and somatic practices and is inspired by the post modern dance movement of 1960’s New York

Josie Archer

public social psychology and cultural contexts by drawing on visual arts and choreographic influences

Mark Harvey

My work acknowledges the fluidity of otherness within the dynamic of performance art

Ivan Lupi

an award winning choreographer and performer based in Aotearoa

Zahra Killeen-Chance

unauthorised audio tours of Te Papa, to fictionalised whale strandings

Binge Culture Collective

Rewa’s work explores many parts of her identity and everyday experiences

Rewa Fowles

performed nationally and internationally with a number of companies and independent choreographers

Kosta Robert Bogoievski

derobe, unmask, see and be seen

Caitlyn Cook

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